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by cameronh90 973 days ago
We know from decades of safety research that threatening to ruin people's lives doesn't prevent accidents. All it does is make people lie about why the accident happened.
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If there were no consequences for running someone over... a lot more people would get run over. I don't think we need much research for this.

If a robotaxi runs someone over, there's no one at the wheel to be held accountable... and the company has many incentives and resources to lie.

It's an ouroboros of perverse incentives: too much and people will lie, cheat and fail to stop and give aide; too little and people don't care.